HIBAPRESS – Abdel Latif Baraka
The Ministry of Interior's departments are moving towards tightening control over deals related to studies and consultations concluded by local authorities, as part of an audit concerning the extent of compliance with legal rules and the efficiency of public fund expenditure.
The audit process includes how the authorities' needs are identified, the preparation of specifications, and competition conditions, in addition to the process of awarding deals, monitoring their implementation, and the extent of actual benefit from the results of the completed studies.
This monitoring comes in light of observations regarding the repeated benefiting of some studies offices from deals, alongside questions about the feasibility of some studies, their cost, and their relevance to real needs and programmed projects.
This operation is expected to be an occasion to tighten control over expenditures for studies and consultations, and to curb any practices that may affect the principle of competition or lead to the expenditure of funds without clear returns.
In conjunction with the preparation for the upcoming budgets of local authorities, the allocations for this type of deal are expected to receive greater follow-up, especially when it comes to similar or repeated studies.
